Re: [Snowdrift-design] Preliminary Review of Dashboard Prototype

2017-07-30 Thread Stephen Michel
Here's what I remember from the discussions a few months back: On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 1:32 AM, Jason Harrer wrote: There are two major concerns with this part of the prototype: 1) This goes against the philosophies that Aaron has talked about numerous times, all

Re: [Snowdrift-design] new video script draft

2017-01-13 Thread Stephen Michel
Snipping wildly to respond to one specific thing. On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 4:53 AM, mray wrote: I expect to work on this inside the design circle and seek acceptance/feedback when there are results to talk about. For the record, there is no design *circle*, since circles are

[Snowdrift-design] Reference -- UX of charities

2017-01-06 Thread Stephen Michel
It's not completely relevant to what we're doing, and we already do many of the things the article suggests, but it's a useful reference nonetheless. https://trackchanges.postlight.com/the-user-experience-of-giving-away-money-d087b986daa1#.n6ii3e37c -- Sent from my phone; please excuse my

Re: [Snowdrift-design] new video script draft

2016-12-23 Thread Stephen Michel
PREFACE: I agree with nearly everything you said; If I didn't explicitly disagree, consider me agreed. On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Aaron Wolf wrote: ``` NEW SCRIPT: Things like software, music, movies, journalism, and research *can* be public goods, freely used

Re: [Snowdrift-design] Intro video script

2016-12-03 Thread Stephen Michel
On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 2:16 PM, Michael Siepmann wrote: On 12/01/2016 07:52 AM, mray wrote: On 30.11.2016 07:30, Aaron Wolf wrote: tentative 4a. "Our innovative platform empowers you to join with others to fund the public goods /you/ care about." tentative 4b.

Re: [Snowdrift-design] Intro video script

2016-11-26 Thread Stephen Michel
On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 11:11 PM, Michael Siepmann wrote: I'm thinking that in this super-short intro, it would be better to omit any reference to a snowdrift. It's just too confusing, not necessary enough, and doesn't help to engage people right away. People can

Re: [Snowdrift-design] Audio for intro-to-snowdrift video

2016-10-17 Thread Stephen Michel
When this video is complete, I'd like to make it into a series of gifs with text, to post on imgur (which, issues with the platform aside, has a large community that I think might be sympathetic to our cause) or elsewhere. ___ Design mailing list

Re: [Snowdrift-design] Mockup of account history

2016-08-10 Thread Stephen Michel
On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 7:01 PM, Stephen Michel <stephen.mic...@tufts.edu> wrote: Some great, intense, back and forth. I ask that Michael and mray pause your discussion for a moment, because I have another perspective I want to throw into the mix that may change the discussion somewhat a

Re: [Snowdrift-design] Mockup of account history

2016-08-10 Thread Stephen Michel
Some great, intense, back and forth. I ask that Michael and mray pause your discussion for a moment, because I have another perspective I want to throw into the mix that may change the discussion somewhat and I'd like to avoid you wasting time, but it might take me an hour or few to get that

Re: [Snowdrift-design] Mockup of account history

2016-08-09 Thread Stephen Michel
On August 8, 2016 1:30:11 PM EDT, Michael Siepmann wrote: >On 08/02/2016 05:55 PM, mray wrote: >> * items that did not contribute to a months spending can be omitted >for >> clarity. Carried over pledges appear on the respective new month. >> Suspended projects are

Re: [Snowdrift-design] Interaction design mockups

2016-06-02 Thread Stephen Michel
On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 5:25 AM, mray wrote: On 24.05.2016 19:42, Michael Siepmann wrote: I've put slightly revised versions of the interaction design mockups some of us looked at via Jitsi Meet yesterday in both the design Seafile server (snowdrift.sylphs.net) and in

Re: [Snowdrift-design] Interaction design mockups

2016-05-26 Thread Stephen Michel
I made some additions to Michael's mockups, specifically for choosing a payment source. You can see them here: http://stephenmichel.me/mockups-dashboard/ You can see my full thoughts in the Taiga user story here: https://tree.taiga.io/project/snowdrift/us/384

Re: [Snowdrift-design] Discuss project page and dashboard

2016-05-20 Thread Stephen Michel
5-0501 TechDesignPsych.com OpenPGP: 6D65A4F7 On 05/20/2016 12:06 PM, Bryan Richter wrote: I'm kinda... not reading too much of these right now, but there was a question I could sorta answer: On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 11:12:24PM -0400, Stephen Michel wrote: I'm a user. I go to snowdrift.coop, log in, go som

[Snowdrift-design] [non MVP food for thought] Fwd: per-project budgets

2016-05-20 Thread Stephen Michel
<aa...@snowdrift.coop> Subject: Re: Stuff I cut from the design list thread NNTR Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 13:19:30 -0400 To: Stephen Michel <stephen.mic...@tufts.edu> On 05/20/2016 08:26 AM, Stephen Michel wrote: On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 9:46 AM, Aaron Wolf <aa...@snowdrift.coop> wrote:

Re: [Snowdrift-design] Discuss project page and dashboard

2016-05-20 Thread Stephen Michel
, 2016 at 12:16 AM, Aaron Wolf <aa...@snowdrift.coop> wrote: On 05/19/2016 08:12 PM, Stephen Michel wrote: This email thread is about a design for the project and dashboard pages. Whether the limit is set on the dashboard page or the project page when pledging (or both) *is* an MVP de

Re: [Snowdrift-design] Discuss project page and dashboard

2016-05-19 Thread Stephen Michel
to reply to just one section). Some nuance is lost; you can get it from Aaron's full email if it's needed. On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 5:38 PM, Aaron Wolf <aa...@snowdrift.coop> wrote: On 05/19/2016 12:54 PM, Stephen Michel wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Michael Siepma

Re: [Snowdrift-design] Discuss project page and dashboard

2016-05-19 Thread Stephen Michel
Thanks for getting the ball rolling on this conversation, Michael. On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Michael Siepmann wrote: As discussed in a recent meeting (transcript in https://tree.taiga.io/project/snowdrift/task/323), wolftune, mray, me, and anyone else who

Re: [Snowdrift-design] PSA: I assume you're also on the snowdrift discuss mailing list

2016-04-16 Thread Stephen Michel
To the discuss list and anyone reading this in the archive: this is cross-posted to the other lists. On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 5:54 PM, Stephen Michel <stephen.mic...@tufts.edu> wrote: On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Peter Harpending <pe...@harpending.org> wrote: On Sat, Mar 26, 2

Re: [Snowdrift-design] PSA: I assume you're also on the snowdrift discuss mailing list

2016-03-27 Thread Stephen Michel
On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Peter Harpending <pe...@harpending.org> wrote: On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 06:48:58PM -0400, Stephen Michel wrote: Attached is a little diagram of how I think of the mailing list membership. I don't believe there's anything official about how they're

[Snowdrift-design] PSA: I assume you're also on the snowdrift discuss mailing list

2016-03-26 Thread Stephen Michel
Attached is a little diagram of how I think of the mailing list membership. I don't believe there's anything official about how they're set up, but you'll still possibly miss info if you're not on a higher-level mailing list. I'd also *like* to make that view of the mailing lists official,

Re: [Snowdrift-design] MVP pages

2016-03-25 Thread Stephen Michel
On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 3:31 PM, mray wrote: On 24.03.2016 21:29, Michael Siepmann wrote: I'm also not clear on how the honor pledge fits in to MVP, given it's about editing wiki pages and posting discussion comments? I should mention, we *do* have wiki pages, currently

Re: [Design] Introductary Materials and the WIki WAS: Some notes from today's meeting

2016-02-04 Thread Stephen Michel
On February 2, 2016 12:48:18 PM EST, Aaron Wolf wrote: >On 02/02/2016 09:37 AM, Bryan Richter wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 09:13:51AM -0800, Aaron Wolf wrote: >>> >>> So, again, moving to Gitit would be ideal >> >> FWIW I think we should try to avoid talking about

Re: [Design] Introductary Materials and the WIki WAS: Some notes from today's meeting

2016-02-04 Thread Stephen Michel
On February 2, 2016 12:09:02 PM EST, Bryan Richter wrote: >On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 02:36:19PM +, Michel, Stephen J. wrote: >> >- The top priority user story is someone coming to the site and >> understanding what it is. >> >- Introductory material is still up for

Re: [Design] animation ideas for snowdrift dilemma etc

2016-01-29 Thread Stephen Michel
On January 29, 2016 5:14:14 AM EST, mray wrote: > > >On 29.01.2016 05:46, Aaron Wolf wrote: >> FLO *does* have a remarkable amount of volunteers given the >situation, >> but we're still struggling greatly. >> >> I'd like to see an animated video that explains the dilemma -snip-

Re: [Design] Elements needed for new homepage deployment

2015-11-17 Thread Stephen Michel
On November 17, 2015 5:12:34 PM EST, Aaron Wolf wrote: >So, I really want to see things pushed up to master sooner rather than >later. Agreed. Proposal: Near-immediately deploy to live, even if things are broken, with the with the following change: Add a global header

Re: [Design] Design details (was: Re: responsive / mobile first (mockup update))

2015-11-02 Thread Stephen Michel
On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 9:32 PM, Aaron Wolf wrote: On 11/01/2015 05:54 PM, mray wrote: Hello Everybody, based on the discussions in IRC about responsive/mobile-first implementation of snowdrift.coop there are some new mockups! I also updated the landing page and

Re: [Design] responsive / mobile first (mockup update)

2015-11-01 Thread Stephen Michel
On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 8:54 PM, mray wrote: Hello Everybody, based on the discussions in IRC about responsive/mobile-first implementation of snowdrift.coop there are some new mockups! I also updated the landing page and the project pledge button area a bit. Please open a new

Re: [Design] project page

2015-10-19 Thread Stephen Michel
For everybody else it will always turn out to be: What you give gets doubled by the community So, this isn't quite true. For people who pledge at the minimum level, your pledge will be just over doubled by the community. For people who pledge at above the minimum level, their pledge will be

Re: [Design] project page

2015-10-18 Thread Stephen Michel
chain of clickable terms starting at the home page till I get to the relevant page. It's not everything, but the wiki directory covers a lot: https://snowdrift.coop/p/snowdrift/w On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Stephen Michel <stephen.mic...@tufts.edu> wrote: On Sun, Oct 18, 201

Re: [Design] project page

2015-10-18 Thread Stephen Michel
On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Jonathan Roberts wrote: How does the math work by the way? I assumed it was exponential until now... https://snowdrift.coop/p/snowdrift/w/en/mechanism You pledge X per other patron. On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Jonathan

Re: [Design] discussion/ticket system mockups

2015-10-17 Thread Stephen Michel
On October 17, 2015 5:04:55 AM EDT, mray <m...@mray.de> wrote: > > >On 16.10.2015 23:41, Stephen Michel wrote: >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 2:06 PM, mray <m...@mray.de> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 16.10.2015 04:57, Stephen

Re: [Design] discussion/ticket system mockups

2015-10-16 Thread Stephen Michel
On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 2:06 PM, mray <m...@mray.de> wrote: On 16.10.2015 04:57, Stephen Michel wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 6:29 PM, mray <m...@mray.de> wrote: After some discussions with wolftune it dawned on me that we probably have to stick to our discussion/t

Re: [Design] Homepage illustration

2015-09-30 Thread Stephen Michel
I think there's a very, very delicate balance that we want to strike. I agree that the home page is too stark for my liking. There's a disconnect between "Join us in setting the world free!" and the looks on the faces of Mimi and Eunice. I agree there's not much sense of a snow *drift* and